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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Jaxson.Han@arm.com,
	Wei.Chen@arm.com
Subject: Re: [bootwrapper PATCH 05/13] aarch64: add mov_64 macro
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:18:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yd7jTD1GFrD3/jGA@FVFF77S0Q05N> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220111144149.6b519ede@donnerap.cambridge.arm.com>

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 02:41:49PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:06:45 +0000
> Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > In subsequent patches we'll need to load 64-bit values into GPRs before
> > the CPU is in a known endianness, where we cannot use literal pools.
> > 
> > In preparation for that, this patch adds a new `mov_64` macro to load a
> > 64-bit value into a GPR using a sequence of MOV and MOVKs, which will
> > function the same regardless of the CPU's endianness.
> > 
> > At the same time, move the `cpuid` macro to use `mov_64` internally.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/aarch64/common.S | 10 +++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/aarch64/common.S b/arch/aarch64/common.S
> > index c7171a9..3279fa9 100644
> > --- a/arch/aarch64/common.S
> > +++ b/arch/aarch64/common.S
> > @@ -9,9 +9,17 @@
> >  
> >  #include <cpu.h>
> >  
> > +	/* Load a 64-bit value using immediates */
> > +	.macro	mov_64 dest, val
> > +	mov	\dest, #(((\val) >>  0) & 0xffff)
> > +	movk	\dest, #(((\val) >> 16) & 0xffff), lsl #16
> > +	movk	\dest, #(((\val) >> 32) & 0xffff), lsl #32
> > +	movk	\dest, #(((\val) >> 48) & 0xffff), lsl #48
> > +	.endm
> > +
> 
> Trusted Firmware has an (admittedly more complicated) version that only
> uses as many instructions as needed, by skipping over halfwords that are
> zero:
> https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tree/include/arch/aarch64/asm_macros.S#n125
> 
> Does that sound useful for us?

For simplicity/clarity, I'd prefer to keep this as-is.

That and I'm not entirely sure about how the boot-wrapper and TF-A licenses
interact, so generally I'd strongly prefer to avoid importing code.

Thanks,
Mark.

> 
> Cheers,
> Andre
> 
> >  	/* Put MPIDR into \dest, clobber \tmp and flags */
> >  	.macro cpuid dest, tmp
> >  	mrs	\dest, mpidr_el1
> > -	ldr	\tmp, =MPIDR_ID_BITS
> > +	mov_64	\tmp, MPIDR_ID_BITS
> >  	ands	\dest, \dest, \tmp
> >  	.endm
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-12 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-11 13:06 [bootwrapper PATCH 00/13] Cleanups and improvements Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 01/13] Document entry requirements Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 02/13] Add bit-field macros Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 14:40   ` Andre Przywara
2022-01-12 14:16     ` Mark Rutland
2022-01-14 18:13       ` Andre Przywara
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 03/13] aarch64: add system register accessors Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 04/13] aarch32: add coprocessor accessors Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 05/13] aarch64: add mov_64 macro Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 14:41   ` Andre Przywara
2022-01-12 14:18     ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2022-01-14 15:37       ` Andre Przywara
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 06/13] aarch64: initialize SCTLR_ELx for the boot-wrapper Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 14:38   ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-12 14:34     ` Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 07/13] Rework common init C code Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 08/13] Announce boot-wrapper mode / exception level Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 09/13] aarch64: move the bulk of EL3 initialization to C Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 10/13] aarch32: move the bulk of Secure PL1 " Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 11/13] Announce locations of memory objects Mark Rutland
2022-01-14 10:48   ` Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 12/13] Rework bootmethod initialization Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 13:06 ` [bootwrapper PATCH 13/13] Unify start_el3 & start_no_el3 Mark Rutland
2022-01-11 14:39   ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-12 14:37     ` Mark Rutland

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